This collaborative, riso-printed copy-left zine is designed as a no-nonsense guide for everyday people to be introduced to the topic of the now 8 year war in Yemen and Canada’s role as a major arms dealer to Saudi Arabia.

The zine includes artwork and layout by Sonali Menezes and writing by organizers with Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War and Labour Against the Arms Trade.  

This project was developed through Mayworks’ Labour Arts Catalyst in collaboration with Labour Against the Arms Trade and the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War. To learn more, read ‘Collective Dialogic Care with Sonali Menezes’ by Genevieve Wallen. 

Sonali Menezes is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hamilton, ON. She holds an Honours BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and is the youngest of triplets. While her work spans many mediums, she has been most recently focused in video, zines and printmaking. In 2018 Sonali’s chapbook zine won the Broken Pencil Magazine Zine Award for best literary zine. In 2019 she was the recipient of the City of Hamilton’s Emerging Artist Award in Media Arts. Sonali just quit her day job in art administration so she can focus on making art and spend less time on emails. If you’ve got any tips on how she can continue paying her bills, please let her know! 

Labour Against the Arms Trade is a coalition of labour and peace activists working to end Canada’s participation in the international arms trade. We organize for arms conversion and a just transition for arms industry workers.

The Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War began life in 2002 as the November 16th Coalition, which formed in Hamilton to organize opposition to the then impending attack on Iraq. Leaders and activists from the peace movement, the faith communities, the labour movement, the student movement, and ethnic communities came together to lobby Canada to stay out of the war if we couldn’t prevent it from happening. From Haiti to Afghanistan to Pakistan we are hearing the drumbeat of illegal and immoral wars become louder and louder. The mission of the Hamilton Coalition to Stop the War is to press harder for peace, challenging every political leader to stand with the people in pursuing peace over war.